Log 015

Log 015

-Author: Rinas Rylos

-Rank: Soldier

-Corporation: Hostile Acquisitions Inc. (H.A.I.)

-Date: 115.05.07

Today was....an interesting affair, to put it mildly. It's not every day I learn all of my assets have been refunded, leaving me with millions more ISK than I'd had. It wasn't...bad, exactly, but still somewhat confusing. Turns out there was a recall as they whipped out new versions of all sorts of shit to be compliant with the new TACCOM software. In addition to finally fixing my fucking starmap, they implemented six people squad capability and a less eye-searing user interface. Seems like the whole thing was a bit of waste of good equipment, but fuck it.

Rather than my usual walk, I spent the better part of my morning reordering my usual shit. Breach shotguns, sniper rifles, Gek 38s, etc. Turns out there were a bunch of new suits as well, so I gave what ones I had training for a purchase. Must've burned through three giant mugs of my favorite black brew as I scrolled through all the new menus and shit. It all certainly looked prettier, but truth be told it was about as intuitive as the last version, if perhaps even less so. Still, at least I had all my dropsuits and old shit reordered, and it was back to the killing fields like normal, right?

In a word? No. Two? Hell no. If you held a gun to my head and I didn't feel like going through the trouble of fixing my hair again, I'd probably say that the majority of the weapons seem to fucking shoot spitballs now. HMG? Fuck you. Sniper rifle? Psh, more like shitter rifle. And I've seen goddamned laser pens that hurt more than the new models of rifle. About the only thing that didn't seem to suck was the assault rifle, which was repeatedly used to lay my ass out. I'd call it disconcerting, but that'd be a huge fucking lie. It was infuriating in more ways than one, particularly since I knew complaints about the HMG had reached the manufacturers before.  That's fucking weapons devs for you, though. They see something being complained about being too shitty, make it shittier, than fail to understand why no one is using them.

That said, I will admit that the helmet's graphic interface has gotten way prettier in outdoor areas. A little...techno-ish, perhaps, but there's still a shitload more color and vibrancy than there was in the last version. They also introduced a tab where I can see exactly what I've been pissing away my ISK on, so that was somewhat handy as well. On the whole, this new update fixed a few things, but really broke way more than it actually helped. Here's hoping the devs for the next version get their head on straight, and that the goddamned weapons manufacturers pull their heads out of their asses, though I'm insanely doubtful of either.

-End Log.